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by jowiar 14y ago
I severely disagree with this, and find it one of the most destructive mentalities persistent in society. I have a good friend whose father was abusive, and a perfectionist. My friend, as a consequence, holds everyone to an impossible stand
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by jowiar 14y ago
Which is a useless message to send. People make mistakes. Period. A system which is not robust to people making mistakes is disastrously broken.
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by jowiar 14y ago
> I may not be applying to the easiest jobs to get but I'm finding it incredibly difficult to even get an interview. After graduating from a top 25 undergraduate business program in 2 years and then going on to earn my MA in econ in ano
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by jowiar 14y ago
> Unless you're looking for a job or are recruiting it's pretty worthless. But if you're looking for a job or are recruiting it can pretty valuable. It has its purpose - one it solves reasonably well. It answers questions like: "Do I kn
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by jowiar 14y ago
Anyone who has lived in California at some point in the past decade knows that direct democracy is a disaster. Ballot initiatives create service (and corresponding spending) increases and forbid tax hikes, leaving the elected legislature un
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by jowiar 14y ago
I would imagine one of the writers of The Office is a Scrabble player - this timing is a bit too coincidental. 'za' was added in OSPD4, which was published in June 2005: http://www.merriam-webster.com/info/pr/2005-scrabble-diction... Mich
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by jowiar 14y ago
What the post is saying is that they also do a really good job filtering out the non-junk "non-chain" hotels, making life difficult for the independent hotelier.
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by jowiar 14y ago
The best strategy with flying I've found is to pick one Legacy carrier/alliance if you're a frequent traveler (because they treat their folks with status quite well, at the expense of everyone else). If you don't fly >25k miles/year, do
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by jowiar 14y ago
The resume review process isn't intended to find the single best candidate. It's intended to whittle a big pile of resumes down to one that can be reasonably covered by the next stage of the process. Coming from public listings, the pile of
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by jowiar 14y ago
> ... given these allegations, are investors actually going to back him in the future? Given these allegations, is he going to be able to find anyone willing to work for/with him in the future?
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by jowiar 14y ago
Javascript-filled sites are often cleaner to scrape. Usually, at some point in the process, a nice JSON structure containing all the useful data exists.
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by jowiar 14y ago
The game is far more strategy-dependant than vocabulary-dependant. The word list comes nowhere near being exhausted on a given board within a game. Now, is it possible to write an AI? Sure, and actually, an AI-contest for this game would be
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by jowiar 14y ago
IF this is actually true, I can sort of see the fit. Apple is very good at turning pieces into products. Color, clearly, isn't, but may be very good at producing pieces that have value in the proper hands. I'm throwing this out there to sti
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by jowiar 14y ago
One trick I found with this is that some sort of "talk" radio, i.e. NPR, is a lot better than music. With music, I can sort of "background task" it, while processing talking requires some conscious effort.
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by jowiar 14y ago
Traffic doesn't pay the bills. At some point, all businesses come down to sell something for less than it costs to make it. Apple is very good at this in the traditional sense. Google has found a way to sell people who are looking for somet
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by jowiar 14y ago
People are willing to pay a higher fare for the service?
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by jowiar 14y ago
The issue with Taxis, in particular, is that they need to be regulated in some way. When hiring a taxi consists of standing on the curb with arm extended, while someone ducks out of traffic to pick you up, there is very little negotiation t
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by jowiar 14y ago
For me it put anything in my download folder. It opens in the browser in a reasonable, non-resource-abusive fashion. I'm on Safari 6/Mountain Lion, so I'm not sure what version this happened.
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by jowiar 14y ago
1) From a technical perspective, this is damn cool - exceedingly well done. Color me very impressed. 2) I hope I never actually see anyone using this on a website, attempting to make things "easier." Between Scribd and Slideshare, and Adobe
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by jowiar 14y ago
Only on the home page. My CSS-fu is a bit out of date, but I think it has something to do with vertical centering/height 100% fun, which once upon a time was most easily accomplished this way.
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by jowiar 14y ago
But they have plenty of power in deciding which zoning board governs the land in which they plan to settle. The community regulations are part of choosing a community in which to reside. If they don't like the regulations that govern Palo A
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by jowiar 14y ago
People who want to live in a community have their say in getting to pick the community in which they live. If you have already made the commitment to move (which comes at a pretty significant cost), you are in a much better position of bein
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by jowiar 14y ago
If you were designing a new city from scratch, this makes sense. Much like in software, cities have "legacy systems" to deal with. In the case of homes in San Francisco, "air rights" had largely been priced into properties by way of histori
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by jowiar 14y ago
If someone bought a couple adjacent houses in the neighborhood where I grew up, knocked them down, and built an 10-unit apartment building in it's place, it would have certainly rented, but it would have imposed unwanted change (traffic, ap
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by jowiar 14y ago
Zoning is a local government issue, not "some urban planner's" issue. If a community wants its own zoning to change, it can get its own zoning changed. What zoning prevents is someone from buying a piece of land in a community and foisting
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by jowiar 14y ago
Efficiency isn't just a global "urban planner's" idea. It actually is a different type of life. Increased density, for me, means that my commute is a 5-minute walk as opposed to an hour-long drive. There is a small grocer in the middle of t
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by jowiar 14y ago
Single-family residences aren't "idiocy", or "bizarrely 1950s". Some people simply prefer to live that way. For instance, I cannot picture my father living in a downtown high-rise. In the past 10 years, I've lived in a suburban single-famil
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by jowiar 14y ago
I see it less on aggregate as a limited land issue, and more of a topography issue. SF is inherently not going to have the character of an east coast city because the hills provide natural divisions in development. San Francisco is a city o
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by jowiar 14y ago
Rush Holt is great. I met him when I was in grad school lobbying for more research funding / better loan situations / better health coverage for graduate students. He took a decent chunk of time to sit down and talk with a group of grad stu
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by jowiar 14y ago
It doesn't have the crazy f of Inconsolata. It's one of the Bitstream/DejaVu Sans Mono derivatives - I think it's Menlo.

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